Human Ordure and Human Urine: Now Available!

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This most interesting work ties hand in hand with the contemporary study of phallicism and the first real effort to breach the moral taboos of anthropological study of prior years, when if reproduction or sin were discussed at all, it was with marked vehemence and plenty of superfluous language.

While the title of the work involves human feces and urine, it goes far beyond this, into sexual rituals, the consumption of foul, decomposed matter, of the use of animal dung and urine both in and outside of religious ritual, and is heavily sourced with references ranging from Torquemada to the US military of the late 19th century. It is an exceptional anthropological study of the topic, and covers dozens of cultures- tribes in India and in the Americas, the then-modern French peasantry, Persians, and more.

80 pages.

Realms of the Living Dead: Now Available!

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This interesting volume is one of the foremost titles crafted by Frank Homer Curtiss during his life. Husband to the Blavatsky-adjacent founder of the Order of Christian Mystics, his views here are an amalgamation of Theosophical, Gnostic, Rosicrucian, and Hermetic materials- indeed, there is an entire section of poetry written purportedly by natural spirits (gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and undines.) Allusions to Blavatsky and others are frequent. It goes well beyond its ostensible subject matter into social issues such as alcoholism (it considers alcohol to resonate at an astral frequency, causing danger to drinkers), the First World War (and how German aeronauts were essentially sinning with their development of aviation technology!) among other intriguing subtopics.

204 pages.

Dionysos and Immortality: Now Available!

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This little booklet is a good overview of a few centuries of interesting Greek history, specifically looking at the change in its religious system as the region went from a relative backwater to a technologically advanced major trading center and military power. The rise of individualism, as a replacement for the old aristocratic system, and its considerable impact on spirituality- especially in regards to how the afterlife was conceived- is of great interest. This text is an oratory transcribed from one of the famous Ingersoll Lectures.

39 pages.

A World of Wonders: Now Available!

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This is an excellent book written under a pseudonym by Catharine Gore, a socialite best known for novels involving women being prim, proper, and exhibiting aristocratic tendencies. The folkloric and mythological content here is predominantly presented for the purposes of explaining why it is false and discredited- however my own interest was piqued even more by a few examples of "debunked" lore now being accepted upon further review; in the 1840s Central Africa was not really explored, for example, and tales of "dwarves" (pygmies) there "at the origin of the Nile" according to ancient records seemed to be mere legend; but we now know that such tribes do indeed exist!

More than fifty chapters here are dedicated to everything from spirits and lycanthropy, to astrology, alchemy, possession, and more.

241 pages.